That President Donald Trump isn’t fond of one of the most popular performers of today, Taylor Swift, is something we are all aware of. In the past, Trump criticized the singer and even called her out during several occasions.
His comments on Swift came as a response to her publicly supporting his opponent, Kamala Harris, during the 2024 presidential campaign. At the time, Swift said, “We can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos.”
During this year’s Super Bowl, which Trump attended, Swift was booed by the crowd, and the president seemed to love the public’s reaction.
“The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift,” he wrote at the time.
He also re-shared a post from Libs of TikTok, which read: “Trump gets massive cheers at the Super Bowl while Taylor Swift gets booed—The world is healing!”
One time, he even posted “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”
During his presidential rallies in 2023, Trump used the song Justice for All, sang by a group of dissidents incarcerated over their alleged roles on January 6. Eventually, the song reached the No. 1 spot on iTunes. It was more than enough for Trump to mock Swift.
“It beat Taylor Swift, it beat Miley Cyrus, who was number one and two,” Trump said. “They were number one and two, we knocked them off for a long time.”
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However, while Trump and Swift got into a feud numerous times, Melania Trump hasn’t commented on the singer… until recently.
Namely, on June 2, the First Lady visited a children’s hospital in Washington, brining gifts to the kids and chatting with them. At one moment, she asked one of the kids about their favorite music, to which the child replied, “Taylor Swift,” according to the NY Post. Hearing this, Melania said that the worldwide superstar was “very talented.”
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So, it’s more than clear that Melania’s opinion of Swift differs from that of her husband.
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Mary Trump has been one of the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump — her uncle.
Mary is the daughter of the president’s late brother Frank who died of heart-attack in 1981.
Over the years, Mary has been warning the public of her uncle’s mental and emotional state. In her book Too Much and Never Enough that she published in 2020, Mary wrote that Trump is “utterly incapable of leading this country and it’s dangerous to allow him to do so.”
She referred to his second return to office as “uniquely dangerous times” and went on to express her fears of him aiming to remain president for life.
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Most recently, during and episode of the YouTube series Trump Trolls Trump she dubbed Trump’s behavior as a “reign of idiocy.”
“We’re now 166 days into the Trump regime’s reign of terror, reign of confusion, reign of chaos, but also let’s call it what else it is, it’s a reign of idiocy,” she said. Mary added: “Time flies when you’re having a horrible time and when democracy is slowly being strangled by a man who can’t tie his own shoes.”
Still, she has given him “credit” for something. “Donald is good at very, very few things but I’m going to give him credit for something,” she said. “He has an actually quite decent ability to mix cognitive decline with narcissism. I mean that’s a twofer.”
Further, Mary called out her uncle’s recent public stops, most particularly his visit to the new Florida immigration center, Alligator Alcatraz, during which reporters asked him how long detainees would remain in custody. Trump gave a vague answer, and Mary was quick to point that out, saying, “The question, you idiot, wasn’t do you like Florida? The reason he can’t answer that question is because he doesn’t have an answer.”
Mary added: “He has an attention span of a toddler, although that’s actually nothing new.”
On the contrary, she commented on the pricey fragrance named “Victory” Trump promoted on Truth Social. The fragrance sells for $249 and includes a gold figurine of himself.
“It is grotesque for the sitting president of the United States to grift off of his office, but here we are,” she said. “The idea of having to guess what that horror smells like is deeply unfair to those of us who are still sane.”
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The death toll reached over 100 after the devastating Texas floods.
Tragic stories from the southern state come one right after another, showing the braveness of individuals who sacrificed their own lives for the sake of those of their loved ones.
Currently, a rescue operation is ongoing as a number of people are still missing.
Inside a cabin at Camp Mystic in the aftermath of deadly flooding in Kerr County, Texas/ Reuters via Daily Beast
The floods also swept away Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp in Kerr County. According to reports, 27 children and counselors hosted by the camp at the time floods surged 26 feet in just 45 minutes lost their lives while 11 are still missing.
“Our hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. We are praying for them constantly,” the camp wrote in a statement on their website. At the time being, they are in contact with local authorities, continuing the search for “missing girls.”
“We ask for your continued prayers, respect, and privacy for each of our families affected. May the Lord continue to wrap His presence around all of us,” the statement ended.
First responders looking for survivors and remains at Kerr County/ EPA
Camp Mystic’s director Dick Eastland died trying to take the children to safety.
“If he wasn’t going to die of natural causes, this was the only other way, saving the girls that he so loved and cared for,” his grandson, George Eastland, wrote on Instagram, ABCreported. “A husband, father, grandfather, and mentor to thousands of young women, he no longer walks this earth, but his impact will never leave the lives he touched.”
Another tragic story from Texas speaks of the heroic final attempt of a dad to save his family at Kerr County, the region hit hardest by the catastrophic floods.
First responders at Blue Oak RV Park in Ingram, Texas/ Shutterstock
Lorena Guillen, owner of the Blue Oak RV Park, recalled how the father, identified as John Burges of Liberty, Texas, clung to a tree while holding his children and refused to let go of them. Not long after, they were all swept away by the rising water.
“My husband was in the water trying to ask them, ‘Please throw me your baby!’ The man was holding tight to his babies, and he just got swept away,” Guillen told the NY Post.
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Burges’ wife and two sons are still missing, while his daughter, who was at a camp at the time of the floods remained safe.
The family was spending the Fourth of July weekend at Guillen’s park.
“The kids were so excited to be here,” Guillen said. “We heard people screaming throughout the night. The cabins from the RV park next door came floating, and they were getting smashed against the trees. ‘Help me! Help me!’ — that was the main thing. You heard a lot of screaming, it was just too much.”
Her entire camp was completely destroyed, but it is the thought of the lives lost that haunts her.
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Melania Trump is a name known world-wide. Being married to the President of the United States of America and business mogul Donald Trump, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the public is interested in her private life. She, however, tends to stay out of the spotlight, which is also true for her son Baron and another person very close to the former First Lady, her older sister Ines Knauss.
Growing up, the two sisters shared a very strong bond, and today, that hasn’t changed even a bit.
The sisters were born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, but grew up in the small railway town of Sevnica. Their father, Viktor, who was a car mechanic and chauffeur, and their mother, Amalija, who worked as a pattern-maker at a clothing factory, were able to provide a good life for Melania and Ines.
“I grew up with a beautiful family and had a wonderful childhood,” Melania Trump said. “My mother and father taught us the importance of education, hard work and family.”
Viktor and Amalija took their daughters on vacations in France, Italy, and Germany. Today, they live in the States but they still own their home in Slovenia which they visit several times a year.
The two sisters were always dressed impeccably as their mom spent hours designing and making clothes for them. Later on, Melania designed the clothes her mother sewed for her herself.
“She was very pretty,” Tomšič, who has run a local hospital to which Melania donated $25,000 after marrying Donald Trump, told GQ in 2016. “She was always very fancy.”
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At the age of 16, Melania was scouted by fashion photographer Stane Jerko who spotted her leaning on a fence while leaving a fashion show at the Festival Hall.
“By the staircase at the entrance, I saw this girl,” Jerko recalled. “She was tall, slim, with long hair. I told her who I was, what I did, and why I would photograph her.”
It was back in 1987 when young Melania decided to drop out of the University of Ljubljana and focus on modeling instead. It took her only a year to get a contract with a modeling agency in Milan.
Once in Milan, Melania focused on her goal of making a name for herself and went home after work instead of partying.
“She kept to herself, she was a loner. After a shoot or a catwalk, she went home, not out. She didn’t want to waste time partying,” Jerko said.
Melania didn’t embark on this adventure by herself, her sister Ines, who also wanted a career in the world fashion, as a designer, accompanied her.
Speaking of Ines, Paris-based photographer Ale de Basseville who took the nude photos of Melania for the French magazine told the New York Post, “She really wanted to be in fashion but didn’t know how to break in.
“Ines wasn’t like the other girls you would meet there, who behave like queens. She was really polite and very mellow.”
When Melania met famous Italian businessman Paolo Zampolli, who helped her get a work visa to the U.S., her sister went with her.
Ines Knauss at 20. Facebook/InesKnauss
At a Kit Kat Club event during the New York Fashion Week in 1998, Zampolli brought a friend, Donald Trump. He was with a date that night, but when he saw Melania, he immediately wanted to know more about her.
One of Melania’s friends, Edit Molnar, spoke of that night and explained that Donald asked Melania for her number, but she didn’t give it to him because he wasn’t alone. “Melania said, ‘He’s here with a woman. I am absolutely not giving him my number,’” Molnar told New York Post. “She wouldn’t even consider it. Donald did all the work.”
Melania also spoke of the night she first met Donald Trump. “He wanted my number,” she told Tatler. “But he was on a date, so of course I didn’t give it to him. I said, ‘I am not giving you my number; give me yours and I will call you.’ If I give him my number, I’m just one of the women he calls.”
Well, the rest is history, and as much as Melania wants to ‘hide’ from the world, we still know a thing or two about her, which can’t be said about Ines, who isn’t only Melania’s sister but also her closest confidante.
PALM BEACH, FL – FEBRUARY 4: (TABS OUT) Ines Knauss, Melania Trump, and Audrey Gruss attend the Valentino Fashion Luncheon benefitting Boy’s Club of New York at Mar-a-Lago February 4, 2005 in Palm Beach Florida. (Photo by Lucien Capehart Photography, Inc/Getty Images)
According to People, Ines was her sister’s maid-of-honor at her wedding to Donald Trump.
Ines is reported to be residing in a Trump-owned apartment – in a building on the Upper East Side in which Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump also resided before they moved into their new home. Her apartment is just four blocks away from her sister’s triplex penthouse at Trump Tower.
Palm Beach philanthropist Audrey Gruss met Ines at a fundraiser for the Boys’ Club of New York at Mar-a-Lago in 2005. She said Ines struck her “as a lovely person, and extremely creative,” adding that the two sisters are extremely close.
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Ines appears to be an artist. In the past, Melania shared on the social media illustrations done by her sister.
Speaking to The Post, Milan-based fashion designer Luisa Beccaria confirmed that the two sisters are like best friends and added that when Barron was born, Melania relied on her sister the most. “Melania had all the professional help she needed at that point,” he said. “But it was her sister she trusted.”
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What was supposed to be a peaceful Fourth of July afternoon turned into a devastating catastrophe for the Texan people affected by the floods that surged 26 feet in a matter of 45 minutes.
The number of fatalities exceeded 100, with Kerrville mayor Joe Herring Jr. disclosing on Monday that local officials “didn’t even have a warning” ahead of the floods, the Daily Beastreported. “I did not receive a flood notification. I did not know.
Further, Herring told CNN’s Pamela Brown in an interview Monday through tears, “I think everyone in Kerrville, everyone in Kerr County, wishes we had some way to warn those people,” “I’ve lost two friends. We loved them. And they’re gone. They’re gone.”
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The floods were caused after storm dumped more than a foot of rain on the region and the Guadalupe River overflowed into nearby roads.
At a Friday press conference, Texas Emergency Management Chief W. Nim Kidd expressed frustration over the inaccurate weather reports, stating, “the original forecast that we received Wednesday from the National Weather Service predicted 3-6 inches of rain in the Concho Valley and 4-8 inches in the Hill Country.”
Inside a cabin at Camp Mystic in the aftermath of deadly flooding in Kerr County, Texas/ Reuters via Daily Beast
The floods swept away Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp in Kerr County. Camp’s nurse Devon Paige shared a video of the girls having fun taken just an hour before the catastrophe struck. At the time of the tragic floods, the camp hosted around 750 girls — 27 of them lost their lives.
A woman that goes by @kelseycrowder_ on TikTok shared a video of the devastating floods and the moment the river raised.
She captured the video, “Frio River Flood 2025. NATURE. IS. WILD.”
In the response of the video, many people criticized the removal of flash flood alerts by the National Weather Service.
“They got rid of the National Weather System so those alerts that say FLASH FLOOD WARNING were not sent out! Some of these occurred like at 4am mind you,” one person commented.
“Imagine if there was a way to warn people in advance,” another added.
A third person commented, “Texas didn’t have a weather advisory because that fool cut the budget of the national weather service.”
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The Texas flood not only destroyed communities, but families too.
On July 4, the day when people across the country celebrate freedom, a brave father made the ultimate sacrifice trying to save his mother, his fiancée, and his children in Kerr County, during the flood that struck the state of Texas.
After a month’s worth of intense rain poured in a few hours, the Guadalupe River rose to a perilous 26-foot level, forcing authorities to place Texas under a state of emergency.
As his family was stuck inside the house that started filling with water at high speed, 27-year-old Julian Ryan punched through a window when “the glass severed his artery in his arm, and almost cut it clean off,” his fiancée Christinia Wilson said.
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The family started calling 911 repeatedly, but emergency services couldn’t reach their home in time to save Ryan’s life.
“By six o’clock, (Ryan) was dead. He’d lost all his blood. He looked at me and the kids and my mother-in-law and said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m not going to make it. I love you all,” heartbroken Wilson recalled.
His body couldn’t be recovered until hours later when the floodwater receded.
“He died a hero, and that will never go unnoticed,” said Ryan’s sister, Connie Salas.
His grieving mother said her son was “the hero of this story.”
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A GoFundMe was set to support the family with “unforeseen financial burdens that come with such a sudden tragedy.”
Col. Freeman Martin, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said on Friday, “We brought in over 100 troopers this morning. And they’ve worked all day, rescues, high water vehicles, boats, rescue divers, seven rescue helicopters with hoist capabilities.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott stated, “We will stop at nothing to ensure that every asset and person and plane, whatever is needed, is going to be involved in the process of rescuing every last person and ensure everybody involved in this is going to be fully accounted for.”
President Trump described the floods as a “terrible thing.”
The number of people killed in the devastating Texas flood reached 81. Among them there are children, and one person is still missing.
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The most recent poll conducted by Emerson College reveals new insights into the political landscape of the 2028 US presidential election.
According to the survey, Vice President JD Vance soared to the position of frontrunner, while current President Donald Trump experienced a noticeable drop in his approval ratings.
Based on the answers of 1,000 registered voters — including 416 Republican primary voters — Vance is way out front in the 2028 GOP lineup with 46% support, while Rubio and DeSantis lag behind with 12% and 9%.
Independent Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received support of 5%, while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley garnered 2 percent each.
Six other candidates polled at 1 percent or less.
The number of undecided voters in the party dropped from 50% in November to 17% in this poll.
When it comes to the Democrats, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has surpassed former vice president Kamala Harris in the poll.
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Some experts argue that the drop in Trump’s ratings is a result of the politics he has implemented since taking Office for the second time. Among the rest, he has signed a plethora of executive orders such as enacting new tariffs on imported goods — causing political tensions at home and abroad — and engaging in a highly publicized feud with tech billionaire Elon Musk.
Also, he signed an order for the US to leave the World Health Organization, changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and most recently, he ordered the Treasury to phase out federal tax credits for solar and wind projects.
Most of Trump’s decisions have caused stir and have been dubbed controversial by experts and Democrats.
Recently, Trump ordered airstrikes on three suspected nuclear facilities in Iran — Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan.
In retaliation, Iran targeted a US military base in Qatar with rocket attacks.
The results provided with the recent poll show not only the public’s opinion on the current administration but also what Americans look for in their potential future leader.
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Family ties can be complex at times, especially when it comes to in-laws.
When Martha’s MIL insisted on babysitting 4-year-old Beverly, Martha wasn’t thrilled. However, the MIL was adamant about taking care of the girl every Wednesday so that the two could bond and spend some quality time together and Beverly could take a day off from kindergarten.
Although Martha had her doubts, her husband, Jason, insisted his mother’s idea was worth considering, so Martha finally agreed.
However, Wednesday after Wednesday, Beverly started acting strange. Out of nowhere, she started talking about her grandma’s “special friend.” When Martha asked her who that special friend was, the girl hesitated to answer as though she was warned to keep it a secret.
After a couple of months, Beverly started talking about her grandma’s ‘special friend’ again. When Martha confronted her mother-in-law, she dismissed it, saying that little girls have wild imaginations. She brushed off Martha’s concerns and acted as if nothing unusual was happening in the house while she and Jason were away.
But Martha could sense something wasn’t wight.
Behind her husband’s back, she installed a camera in the living room, waiting to catch her MIL in the act.
When Wednesday rolled around, Martha turned on her laptop and watched closely what was going on in her home while she was at the office.
At first, nothing seemed off. Beverly and her grandma were having fun together, playing with building bricks and drawing with crayons. But then, someone knocked on the door.
Martha couldn’t believe her eyes. It was Alexa, Jason’s ex-wife.
When Beverly saw her, she ran towards her and hugged her as though she had known her since she was born.
Martha realized that Alexa was her MIL’s “special friend.”
Without giving it a second thought, Martha rushed home.
To her surprise, her MIL didn’t even try to defend herself. Instead, she turned to Martha and said, “My son should have never married you. Alexa has always been the right woman for him.”
Martha told both women to leave her house.
That evening, she showed the footage to Jason. He was shocked at what he saw and they both decided to keep their girl away from his mother.
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